England v Russia Ladies

[RSB]

England 4 up at half time 🙂 BBC2 for the second half.

Americans: Over Sexed, Over Payed and Over here, Wat Wat!

[JayCeeDee]

I thought this was about my spam folder, not a football match!!??

[Boris]

6-0 – somewhat one-sided with England having 72% possession + 32 shots.

Never trust an atom - they make up everything !

[The Duke]

Possession isn’t everything! Just go and have a look at the stats on tonight Liverpool game ?

[Bob Williams]

Hoping for a shock against Moneybags Chelsea tonight: don’t care how little possession we have, just want at least one more goal than the Blues. COYR!

Well done England Ladies, wish the men’s team were as successful. And could be called England Gentlemen! ???

When the Thought Police arrive at your door, think -
I'm out.

[RSB]

Who do you think is telling the porkies. I’m usual good at making a decision to who I think is telling a porky but on this occasion I am at a loss. Although I have always thought he looks a bit iffy.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/41326806

Americans: Over Sexed, Over Payed and Over here, Wat Wat!

[Bob Williams]

I think it might be that some female players (like Eniola Aluko) may be more “sensitive” and easily upset, than players like Jodie Taylor, who last night ran straight to Mark Sampson for a celebration hug, after scoring. I have also watched Aluko play a few times for England and noticed  that she tends to sulk if she doesn’t get the ball when she thinks she ought to have it. A very good player, but too impressed with her own place in the team.

On the other hand, as in some recent cases in the men’s game, once there is smoke, some people say they were burned some time ago. Personally, I think that Mark Sampson may have been indiscreet a few times in getting closer to the players than the PC brigade think is ‘proper’. But I don’t think he is lying: you can’t engender the kind of loyalty, team spirit and ability he has built in the England Ladies team, without being close to the squad. Most football managers create a “them and us” attitude, which brings a bunch of players together and creates a team. What makes this situation different, is that he is a guy and his players are women.

I wonder what would happen if the situation was reversed? A female manager of the England men’s team? If it’s all about diversity and equality, what would the PC pillocks think about that? It’s all about ability to coach and manage a successful squad and only Sir Alf Ramsey, has taken a senior England squad further than Mark Sampson has.

If he is found guilty of  serious misconduct, he should be punished, but it appears to me that he is being pushed out by the FA, in fear of the proven misconduct in the men’s game. That happened for decades, with lots of warnings brushed under the carpet. The FA Oldpharts ignored it and are now paying the price. Sampson may be being sacrificed in the name of ‘doing something about it’.

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I'm out.

[Bob Williams]

I made the preceeding post before this came out today:     http://tinyurl.com/yb7ldxl6

He has been sacked, or rather pushed out. Reading all of the BBC report and the FA Talking Heads’ various garbage-speak, there still does not appear to be a case of innapropriate behaviour to answer. Eniola Aluko did not make any allegation (about Sampson making an ‘innapropriate remark’ in 2015) until she was ” asked to participate in a cultural review of all England teams by the FA’s technical director Dan Ashworth. ” – in 2016. That was investigated and led to:

” March 2017: The independent review clears Sampson and his staff of wrongdoing but it is understood that Aluko was paid £80,000 in a confidentiality agreement. ”

Other England Ladies players have defended the guy. He has been paid up for his contract until 2019. Mark Sampson appears more and more like a scarificial lamb. This is what the FA now says: ” Mark Sampson is absolutely clear to work as a coach in football. ”  Really? So why is he sacked?  And does the FA sacking him, not now prevent him from getting another coaching job?

What a farce. The secretive FA will never reveal their own report about this of course.

When the Thought Police arrive at your door, think -
I'm out.

[RSB]

It’s a shame as he was obviously doing some correct. Them Lasses play there back side off and enjoy it.

Americans: Over Sexed, Over Payed and Over here, Wat Wat!

[Ed P]

It all now has the distinct stink of political correctness attempting to cover up for administrative incompetence rather than a justified sacking. Whether that is true I obviously have no idea, but the way it has all been handled certainly scores a goal wrt administrative incompetence.

[The Duke]

Just another day inside the walls of the FA.

A load of old boys all looking out for themselves, totally out of touch with the game and it’s fans.

From what I’ve heard today, before he was appointed the board was warned of his past indiscretions, which should of been enough to not offer him the roll. Seems a right clusterfuck, but it is nice to see the girls team is handled in the same inept way the men’s team is, and the rest of the leagues.

[Alan Wood]

Seems to me that he was probably the manager of the men’s team in waiting. I have found the women’s  game to be far more entertaining than the men’s game. This is political correctness gone mad. It is about time that some new strategies were injected into the men’s game to prevent us all from getting bored with the continual failure to live up to expectations. At least the women’s team excelled in that.

 

Mark for England is my feeling and never mind the old brigade who are still living in the past.

[Bob Williams]

Yes those girls really went for it in every game under Mark Sampson’s coaching, they ran to him after every goal. It was obvious that they listened to him when you saw them at team talks, in the couple of extra time games, they were concentrating on his words. If that isn’t coaching ability and motivation, I don’t know what is. It would be ironic if he wound up coaching a competitor nation’s team, male or female.

The Ladies team always seemed to go with much more forward play than the men’s under Southgate and previous managers. Pass back or across 3 times for every forward movement, try  to tap-tap it into the box, straight into a packed defence. Plenty of possession, very little end product, even less entertainment value. This from players who go forward every game in the Premiership at 100 mph. Italian-style possession is not our normal game.

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I'm out.

[The Duke]

I still think we should scrap the whole international set ups. It’s gone from a distraction to a circus.

Move the league schedule to a summer one, and maybe do a 4 nations type set up over the Xmas period to make up for the loss of Xmas footy. Plus with it being home nations people may care again.

friendlies  annoy me, qualifiers frustrate me, and tournament’s depress me. I have no room in my life for unsatisfactory footy. I can only take so much.

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